A Story, a Story: with audio recording | TheBookSeekers

A Story, a Story: with audio recording


No. of pages 36

Reviews
Great for age 4-11 years
This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them--and caught three sly creatures to get them.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 36 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Simon & Schuster .

The woodcuts that illustrate this book were cut and printed by Miss Haley in her own print shop. She lives and works in New York with her family, surrounded by a large collection of early children's books, toys and games, cut outs and dolls, going back to the seventeenth century.

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Caldecott Award
This book was recognised by the Caldecott Medal. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

No reviews yet